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A Professor’s Playbook: Smarter Syllabi with Connect

Real talk from a real instructor who made the switch to Connect and saw big results.

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • Economics
  • Connect
  • 60 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

Listen in to A Professor’s Playbook: Smarter Syllabi with Connect, led by instructional designer and current economics instructor, Dr. Michele Hampton, who rebuilt her course using McGraw Hill’s Connect and saw big results.

In this peer-led session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Align assignment types with real classroom challenges
  • Streamline your workload without sacrificing rigor
  • Design a syllabus that drives engagement, not just compliance
  • Build a better learning experience starting day one

Whether you're looking to refresh your course or find new ways to support your students, this session will give you the playbook, and a colleague's perspective, to rethink what’s possible.

About Your Speaker

  • Michele Hampton -

    Michele Hampton

    Meet the Speaker: Dr. Michele Hampton
    Professor, Economics & Business Administration, Cuyahoga Community College

    Dr. Michele Hampton brings over two decades of higher education experience to the virtual stage as a professor in the Business department at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. With a background that spans engineering, consulting, entrepreneurship, and instructional design. Michele is passionate about leveraging technology to create more engaging, efficient, and effective learning experiences.

    She holds a PhD in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design for Online Learning from Capella University, an MBA in High Technology Operations from Northeastern University, and a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University. A longtime advocate for online and blended learning, her academic interests include adaptive learning, student immediacy, and social presence.

    An award-winning educator, Dr. Hampton was named Teacher of the Year by the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges, a Faculty Innovator finalist by the American Association of Community Colleges, and a recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award at Tri-C. In this session, she’ll share how McGraw Hill Connect has helped her strategically enhance her course design and how it can do the same for yours.